Computer graphic art exhibition opens in Belgrade

BELGRADE - "Do you like Palaeolithic OP-ART?", an exhibition of computer graphic art by Jablan Slavik that represents a new art direction - math art - has opened at the RTS Gallery in Belgrade.

The exhibition, which opened late Monday, ends on November 20.

Starting from the premise that mathematical structures (fractals, nodes and links, groups of ornamental symmetries, tessellations and polyhedrons) have represented an endless source of inspiration for artists since the Palaeolithic era, the author has produced a series of computer graphics and transparent sculptures.

Besides, by using mathematical knowledge about tessellations, antisymmetry, the theory of labyrinths, polydimensional polyhedrons, etc., Slavik has created a series of mobile interactive structures that can be modified by the visitors themselves.

Slavik, a professor of mathematics who holds a doctoral degree, belongs in a very small group of authors who address this topic through artistic expression and is known around the world as the biggest expert in this field in south-eastern Europe.

The exhibition is the sum of the author's three decades of work in the field and his artistic vision of genesis.

The exhibition is also accompanied by diverse side-events, including the author's two lectures on visual mathematics, scheduled for Tuesday, and a lecture on visual mathematics in education by Ljiljana Radovic from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Nis.

Radovic will reflect on an EU-Tempus project on this topic, carried out in the past three years in collaboration with the Vienna University of Applied Arts, the Saint Lucas University in Brussels, the University of Eger, Hungary, and the Juvaskula University, Finland.